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CCP Rise
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Posted - 2014.01.31 13:26:00 -
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Hello
I made a small announcement last night on the 1.1 live stream but I'm sure many of you missed that so I wanted to make a post to let as many of you know as possible.
We've been thinking for awhile about the issue of cost to power ratio for the Sisters of EVE ships, and especially the Nestor. A lot of your feedback has been on this issue, with a large focus on how difficult it is to justify paying the price of the Nestor, and we tend to agree. There are a few reasons we ended up in this position to begin with. The first is that we wanted to set the high sec LP offers for these ships above normal pirate faction LP prices. This still stands and the reason is very simple; you should get a better deal for pirate faction ships when you take the risk of leaving high sec. The second piece, which ties with the first, is that Sisters of EVE LP is very valuable because of demand for Sisters Probe Launchers and implant sets. That means the ISK conversion on ships like the Nestor would never be worthwhile as long as demand for probe launchers was higher, which will likely always be the case. Last, we could have tried to make the Nestor powerful enough to justify the huge price-tag. We really didn't want to go with this option and create a ship basically in a class of its own which would cause a lot of balance headaches.
So, here's what we're going to do: starting in the next major Rubicon patch (which I don't have a date for, but is not very far off), Rogue Drones will start occasionally dropping nexus chips which you will be able to trade in at any Sisters of EVE agent for a one-run BPC of either a Nestor, Stratios or Astero. The chips will be called Rogue Drone 46-X Nexus Chip, Rogue Drone 43-X Nexus Chip and Rogue Drone 42-X Nexus Chip respectively, and they will drop at a very similar rate to other pirate faction BPC drops in null sec.
This should provide a nice pressure valve for the prices on Sisters of EVE ships and also give a little boost to the drone regions, two things we are happy about.
Have fun out there and take care of all those new people this weekend  |
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CCP Rise
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Posted - 2014.01.31 15:04:00 -
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Any sites that spawn 'Sentient' Rogue Drone Frigates, Cruisers or Battleships can now drop these items.
I should say that while there may be some small initial change in the price of Sisters items on the market (potentially Sisters ship prices going up until this change hits for instance) because of this announcement, the long term value of Sisters LP won't be affected at all because of the reason stated above: the LP:ISK value is controlled by probe launchers and implants rather than Sisters ships. |
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CCP Rise
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Posted - 2014.01.31 15:34:00 -
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Edited my post because I think you're probably right. We were talking yesterday about how announcing this might mean that even less people would cash in LP for ships and so the supply would tighten between now and when this goes live, potentially pushing prices up. I guess we'll see, but your argument makes sense. It also may be that announcing this now simply won't have much of an effect on the market in the mean time. |
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CCP Rise
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Posted - 2014.02.03 16:08:00 -
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zerquse wrote:Hey Rise. Sentients are like Unicorns. So what is the drop chance?
Also any chance rogue drone could get drone poo back, not at what it was but comparable in isk value to other rat drop tables?
The drop chance is modeled on the drop chance in other factions for ship BPCs (Serpentis/Guristas/etc), I'll be watching to see what kind of impact this has on the price and if we need to tune the drop chance up we'll do that. |
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